Kristina Kanders

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Kristina Kanders (* 1962 in Cologne ) is a German artist and former musician .

Life

Kanders is a daughter of the singer Agnes Giebel . During her school days she concentrated on painting before turning to drums after graduating from high school. In 1987 Kanders went to New York to study (1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Parsons School of Design, 1997 Master of Arts Degree from Queens College ). She studied u. a. with Ron Carter , Jimmy Heath , Kenwood Dennard , Jojo Mayer , Bernard Purdie , Kenny Werner and Jim Hall . From 1994 to 2005 Kanders taught at New School University .

From New York, Kanders performed at concerts, festivals and radio broadcasts in the US and Europe between 1987 and 2005, including Cyro Baptista's Beat the Donkey (Big Bang Percussion Festival) (including Carre / Amsterdam, Phillipszaal / Maastricht, Vredenburg / Den Haag, Vooruit / Gent, Jazz Festival Willisau , Switzerland; Guimaraes Jazz Festival, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; New York appearances with Baptista at the Guggenheim Museum , NY Stock Exchange, Bowery Ball Room, Tonic, Brooklyn Museum ; Central Park / Summerstage ; SOB's and Knitting Factory . Special guests were John Zorn , Marc Ribot , David Brosa and Cibo Mato.). With her own band Sambanditos she played a. a. at Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall , Lincoln Center , the Museum of Modern Art , Princeton University , Museo del Barrio, and several United Nations events as well as the Pori Jazz Festival. She also played with the Kit McClure Big Band, Joe McGinty, Huevos Rancheiros, Boo Trundle, Maria Excommunikata.

Kanders has been living in Cologne again since 2005. From 2006 to 2009 she regularly played drums for Frank Köllge's Adam Noidlt Missiles Orchestra . In 2008 her solo debut album For All People was released . In 2010 she released her second CD Say Something . More music and art videos and art exhibitions followed. Her videos Say Something and Human Rights were shown internationally at the CologneOff VIII Videoart Festival (including USA, India, Russia, Iceland, Hungary, Mexico, Argentina, Morocco, Spain). Since 2012 she has completely shifted her creative focus to the visual arts. From 2014 Kanders will concentrate on the series Disappearing Housewives , for which a catalog was published in 2019.

Exhibitions (excerpt)

(K = catalog)

  • 2019: Salon des Independants, Grand Palais, Paris
  • 2019: Women's Museum Bonn, Women's Political Awakening II - From Equal Rights to Self-Determination , Annual Exhibition, K
  • 2018: Salon D'Automne Paris, K
  • 2018: Die Große NRW 2018, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, K
  • 2017: NordArt, Carlshütte Büdelsdorf , K
  • 2016: Frauenmuseum Bonn, Work and Women , annual exhibition, K
  • 2015: Women's Museum Bonn, 25th art fair, K

Prices

  • 2018: Art Prize of the City of Wesseling in the painting category

literature

Film, TV and concert appearances and contributions

  • 1988: Pori Jazz Festival with Sambanditos
  • 1992–2002: Concerts with Sambanditos / NYC in Madison Square Garden, MOMA, United Nations, Lincoln Center a. v. a.
  • 1995: Modern Drummer Festival with Kenwood Dennard
  • 1996: Appeared in two US TV commercials directed by producers from STOMP , New York
  • 1998–2002: Festivals with Cyro Baptista's Beat the Donkey, including at the Big Bang Percussion Festival in Belgium and Holland, Guimaraes Jazz Festival, Guggenheim Museum, NY Stock Exchange and many more
  • 2000: Willisau Jazz Festival with Cyro Baptista's Beat the Donkey
  • 2001: La Plaza TV documentary about Beat the Donkey for WBGH Public Television, Boston
  • 2009: Film music for Global Vulva by artist Myriam Thyes , Cologne / Düsseldorf
  • 2009: The Dome 51, Lanxess Arena Cologne, drums for Emiliana Torrini
  • 2010: Drums for URBANATIX - The Show, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
  • 2010: Percussion / Drum Tracks for author and composer Frank Schätzing , Cologne

Discographic notes

  • Kristina Kanders, Say Something (Bernd Gast Music), 2010, Cologne
  • Kristina Kanders, For All People (Bernd Gast Music), 2008, Cologne
  • Brian Woodbury: Variety Orchestra (Some Phil Records, RER Megacorp, 2004), New York
  • Cyro Baptista: Beat the Donkey ( Tzadik , 2002), New York
  • David Watson: Skirl (Avant Records, 1999) with Beat the Donkey , New York
  • Soundtrack with the Custard Kings for the film The Golden Ram by Alain Cloarec , 1996, New York
  • Boo Trundle: Possible Bodies (Big Deal Records, 1996), New York
  • Joe McGinty: Baby Steps (Continuum Records, 1996), New York
  • David McClary: Huevos Rancheros (Three Ring Records, 1996), New York

Web links

Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ focus.de ; Focus May 2017
  2. ↑ a b Don't be afraid of electronics in Jazzzeitung 5/2010
  3. ↑ [1] ; (English) Local 802 article, June 2006
  4. ↑ [2] ; Maria Excommunicata on Youtube
  5. ^ For All People. In: discogs.com. Accessed November 4, 2018 .
  6. ↑ [3] ; discogs.com
  7. ↑ See melodiva.de review 2010
  8. ↑ https://www.diegrosse.de/teilnehmerinnen-2018, accessed on January 5, 2020
  9. ↑ Montserrat Manke: "Leicht.Sinn": Excellent art . In: rheinische-verbindungenblaetter.de . ( rheinische-verbindungenblaetter.de [accessed on November 4, 2018]).
  10. ^ [4] Myriam Thyes - Global Vulva
  11. ↑ This CD named Jon Pareles , chief music critic of the New York Times, as one of the Top 10 Alternative CDs of 2002
personal data
SURNAME Kanders, Kristina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer, percussionist, composer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne